A Deadly Indifference: A Henry Spearman Mystery

by Marshall Jevons

Overview

Professor and amateur detective Henry Spearman trails a killer in the UK, using economics to try to solve the case

Harvard professor Henry Spearman—an ingenious amateur sleuth who uses economics to size up every situation—is sent by an American entrepreneur to Cambridge, England. Spearman’s mission is to scout out the purchase of the most famous house in economic science: Balliol Croft, the former home of Professor Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes’s teacher and the font of modern economic theory. After a shocking murder, Spearman realizes that his own life is in danger as he finds himself face-to-face with the most diabolical killer in his career.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691259338
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	05/14/2024
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marshall Jevons is the pen name of Kenneth G. Elzinga, the Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia, and William Breit (1933-2011). Together, they wrote two other Henry Spearman mysteries, The Fatal Equilibrium and Murder at the Margin (Princeton). Elzinga, as Marshall Jevons, is also the author of another Henry Spearman book, The Mystery of the Invisible Hand (Princeton).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Remains to Be Seen 1

Chapter 2 Train to Cambridge 5

Chapter 3 Punting on the Cam 11

Chapter 4 Breakfast with Mrs. Saltmarsh 17

Chapter 5 Balliol Croft 23

Chapter 6 The Humpty Dumpty Theorem 33

Chapter 7 Cambridge Controversies 41

Chapter 8 Balliol Croft Lost 49

Chapter 9 The Master's Lodge 53

Chapter 10 The Bentham Society Dines 63

Chapter 11 A Deadly Indifference 69

Chapter 12 The Apostles 73

Chapter 13 The Cam Revisited

Chapter 14 The Poor Yank 93

Chapter 15 Balliol Croft Regained 97

Chapter 16 Ya Got to Have Hart 107

Chapter 17 Much Ado about Maps 115

Chapter 18 Grantchester's Miss Marple 123

Chapter 19 Adverse Selection 133

Chapter 20 The One in the Many, the Many in the One 137

Chapter 21 Warren Thorne Remembers 143

Chapter 22 In King's College Chapel 147

Chapter 23 Partial Analysis 151

Chapter 24 Taking a Stand on Mathematical Bridge 157

Chapter 25 Grave Matters 161

Chapter 26 Professor Spearman Professes 169

What People are Saying About This

Siegfried

A Deadly Indifference maintains the high standard authors William Breit and Kenneth G. Elzinga established in their two earlier Henry Spearman mysteries.... This short book will make a great gift.
— John J. Siegfried, "Journal of Economic Education"

From the Publisher

"A Deadly Indifference maintains the high standard authors William Breit and Kenneth G. Elzinga established in their two earlier Henry Spearman mysteries.... This short book will make a great gift."—John J. Siegfried, Journal of Economic Education

Editorial Reviews

"This lively, carefully crafted mystery surely offers the greatest good to the greatest number of readers."

Publishers Weekly

"Readers will find themselves effortlessly picking up the economic principles strewn about by the authors as clues. . . . The corpse, when it appears, is a show stopper."—-Deborah Stead, New York Times Book Review

From the Publisher

Readers will find themselves effortlessly picking up the economic principles strewn about by the authors as clues.... The corpse, when it appears, is a show stopper.

The New York Times Book Review - Deborah Stead

Readers will find themselves effortlessly picking up the economic principles strewn about by the authors as clues.... The corpse, when it appears, is a show stopper.
— Deborah Stead

The New York Times Book Review